Screwing around at cnnsi.com while eating, here’s their list of top 10 most unbreakable baseball records:<\/p>\n
1. Cy Young’s 511 career victories
\n2. Joe DiMaggio’s 56 game hitting streak
\n3. Ty Cobb’s career .366 batting average
\n4. Rickey Henderson’s season SB record of 130
\n5. Babe Ruth’s career .690 slugging pct
\n6. Barry Bonds’ season record for walks: 232.
\n7. Nolan Ryan’s career Ks of 5,714.
\n8. Jack Chesbro’s season record for complete games: 48.
\n9. Ted William’s lifetime OBP of .482
\n10. Hank Aaron’s 25 career all-star games (somewhat aided by multiple games for several years, but he still played in an all star game in 21 of his 23 seasons).<\/p>\n
Most of these I tend to agree with … but there are certainly other records out there that are in a similar vein to Cy Young’s career victory record.\u00a0 Single season wins, single
\nseason innings pitched, starts, complete games, etc all are basically obsolete benchmarks.\u00a0 Hell, I’d be willing to wager against someone ever winning 30 games in a season ever again.<\/p>\n
Not sure i’d say that a 56-game hitting streak is unassailable.\u00a0 Yes it’s been a while since it happened, but it routinely gets approached.\u00a0 You see 30, 35, 40 game streaks
\nwith some frequency.
\nPlus, i think the stolen base is coming back into vogue.\u00a0 Maybe not close to 118 or 130 in a season, but i think its just a matter of time before we start seeing higher totals.
\nThere seems to be a dearth of quality defensive catchers these days.
\nanyway, random thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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